TurBaconEpic – Turducken to the extreme
TurBaconEpic takes turducken to a whole new level. The classic “chicken in a duck in a turkey” was transformed into a dish of ridiculous proportions…..that makes me giggle and drool, hehe.
This is a….a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig! Watch the video to see just how many birds, layers of meat glue, and obscene amounts of bacon they used. As the comments suggested, I’m thinking maybe they should just stick it all in a cow next time, too. :P
Tips for getting kids to eat new foods (whether they’re picky eaters or not)
- Don’t force them to eat everything. If they find a dish nasty, it’ll only make them hate it more. Besides, do you really want someone to make you eat something that’s gross?
- Use a two-bite rule. The first bite is to try it and the second bite is to decide if they really like it or not. One bite isn’t usually enough to really get a taste. Kids sometimes make up their minds before even trying it, too, so the second bite can sometimes be the deciding try.
- Don’t fix separate meals. Make sure there are sides available for them to eat if they choose not to eat the portion they despise, but don’t cater to them with a completely different dish.
- Re-name things! My little sister found “ground turkey” to be disgusting, but she loves dinosaur meat….which is what we re-named it early on. Trying using their favorite cartoons as inspiration. Any of you had Bug’s Bunny carrots or Popeye spinach? Pay attention to the current trends and go for it.
- Make things fun to eat. Meatloaf doesn’t look so gross when you cook it in a muffin tins and pick it up with your fingers. Chopsticks are tricky, but cool to try out. Cook a soup that’s meant to be drank straight out of the bowl. Eat green beans like fries.
- Make food look funny. Yep, this is where you arrange it to look like a smiley face instead of something out of a gourmet food magazine. Take a little extra time to shape food into fun shapes or animals even. Or meat baby? Maybe not.
- Let them help cook. This can sometimes be frustrating, but what kid doesn’t want to eat something they created themselves? Pick out a few recipes with a new ingredient and let them choose the recipe. One of the girls requests tofu now because she once got to carry the squishy package around the whole store, help squish out the liquid, and cut it into cubes. Let them measure, mix, put in the spices, whatever.
- Bring out the dips. And don’t be offended if they like your fancy chicken dish better when dipped in ketchup. If they don’t like something in the first couple bites of trying it, they might vary well like it with a little honey mustard or ketchup. Just do me a favor and don’t bring out the ranch dressing unless you make your own and it’s MSG-free.
- Have an interesting story. Make foods sound exciting, even if they aren’t. Mine are obsessed with knowing if dishes I make are “from Canada” because I’ve visited Vancouver several times and they like hearing about the new foods I tried. One of the girls likes knowing where things come from, so if a dish has a fancy name, I’ll tell her what exotic cuisine it originated from…even if it isn’t really anything special.
- Turn on the cooking channel. Watch it with them sometimes and point out things you think would be delicious. Let them watch the gross ones, too, even, hehe. When they mention that humongous pizza they saw, consider making a scaled down version, just because they brought it up. They’ll be more likely to point out new things, knowing that you’re willing to make them. They might even surprise you with some strange requests.
- Bring in new dishes regularly. There’s nothing wrong with cooking everybody’s favorite meals or not always feeling like cooking. Make sure you try to bring in something new every now and then, though, so they get used to expanding their taste buds.
I could never survive on a cooking show
A couple months ago, my sister was watching me take pictures of food. It’s nothing out of the ordinary, but I’d actually bought a set of cheap plastic dishes for the sheer sake of picture some food on the colors.
Foodies present on white. Food bloggers present on white. Chefs present on white. Food looks great on a white background and cameras can capture their colors best with the white. That’s just the way it is.
All the more reason she giggled at me when I gave her the option of blue or pink (okay, it was magenta, but I didn’t know if she knew what color that even was, hehe).
She watches Chopped on a regular basis and told me how she thinks of me sometimes when she sees the dishes.
“Except yours would never be picked because you’d do it with smiley faces or something. They’d think it was really cute, but you’d never win.”
Lol! It’s true! The conversation went on and we joked about me serving meatloaf rats or arranging the foods into funky shapes. She said sometimes I make them look like the chefs do and talked about how sometimes the chefs end up making a dish look really gross.
All the while, I was arranging bowls of shrimp alfredo into a pyramid.
Sure, the color is off, but the more important thing is the milk on the table you can see on the left hand side. I can get by with this because I’m not a food photographer. Or a chef. Or a photo editor.
I’m Quirky Jessi and kids like building things, even if it’s just a tower of funky colored bowls. :P
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